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Emanuela
Fornari, Modernity Out of
Joint: Global Democracy and Asian Values in Jürgen Habermas and
Amartya K. Sen
A volume in the series
Contemporary European Cultural Studies
Series editors,
Gianni Vattimo and Santiago Zabala
About the book
In this
book, our global age is redefined as the time in which
modernity has gone “out of joint”. What happens to the
traditional and well-established notion of “modernity” when
we can no longer rely on a single center of the world? How
does our conception of rights change when confronted with
the “democracy of others”? Modernity Out of Joint
deals with these pressing issues through an acute survey of
two widely influential paradigms of contemporary democratic
theory: J. Habermas’ discourse ethics and A.K. Sen’s
capabilities approach. In both cases, the global challenge
represented by today’s claim to an “Asian difference”
against the Western canon motivates us to revise some
fundamental assumptions of modern political anthropology. At
the same time, this challenge invites us to revive the
unexpressed potential still latent in the building blocks of
Western thought and experience, in view of a renewed
multilateral universalism.
Contents
Introduction
Part One: Global Cultures, Local Ethics
1. Preamble
2. Asian Values and Human
Rights
3. Which Globalization?
4. The Glo-cal Paradox
5. ‘European
Exceptionalism’: Merits and Paradoxes of Weber’s Comparative
Approach
6. Protestantism and the Confucian Ethic
Part Two: Modernity and the West’s Self-Understanding: The
Discursive Paradigm
1. Preamble
2. Between Habermas and Weber: ‘Western
rationalism’
3. Legal medium and social integration
4. ‘Logical genesis’ of law
5. A defense of human rights
6. Beyond individualism
Part Three: Pluriversal Justice: Amartya Sen and the
Capabilities Approach
1. Preamble
2. Ethics and economics: beyond the homo
œconomicus
3. Culture and market
4. Self-Orientalism
5. The intercultural dimensions of freedom
6. The values of development
7. Capabilities and eudaimonia
Epilogue: Human Rights, Capabilities and
Justice: A Triangular Comparison
Bibliographical References
The Author
Emanuela Fornari is a researcher in Philosophy at the
University of Rome III, where she obtained her European PhD.
She has published several essays on contemporary European
philosophy, political theory and postcolonial studies, and
is now at work on a book on the themes of cultural
translation and the re-writing of history.
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